IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Birkbeck
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1980IN107025
  • User Pedon ID: 1980IN107025
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - MY8025
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23491
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 39.9474361
  • Std. Longitude: -86.9944694
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 630 feet east and 2080 feet south of the northwest corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN107—Montgomery

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Hosteter and Wolf
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 25
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Birkbeck
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Birkbeck
  • Classificaton Date - 11/6/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: rise on till plain
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/6/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
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    AP—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MY80251
    B1—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium granular parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # MY80252
    B21T—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on faces of peds and 15 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # MY80253
    B22T—64 to 91 centimeters (25.2 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on faces of peds and 35 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # MY80254
    B23T—91 to 122 centimeters (35.8 to 48.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; 1 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, manganese coatings and 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # MY80255
    B3—122 to 140 centimeters (48.0 to 55.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; 1 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, manganese coatings and 21 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # MY80256
    B3—140 to 152 centimeters (55.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, manganese coatings and 3 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; 5 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # MY80257
    C—152 to 165 centimeters (59.8 to 65.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; massive; firm; 5 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8. Lab sample # MY80258